(Imagine you were just born. Someone brings you a glass of water. The water is dirty and has living insects in it. You are disgusted, but you drink it anyways. Then, the person brings you food, but it's contaminated. How do you feel? Probably not too great. This is how dogs in puppy mills live every day. The conditions of the facilities are awful and the quality of life is extremely difficult to adapt to. The female dogs are forced to reproduce as much as possible with little to no recovery time between litters. After a few years, the females that are no longer able to reproduce are often killed as the owners no longer have a use for them. The dogs spend most of their lives in small cages, unable to play or exercise. Dogs that have spent a large part of their lives in puppy mills are often found with swollen and bleeding paws, their paws stuck in the wire of the cages, severe tooth decay, ear infections, dehydration, lesions on their eyes, and extremely malnourished. Puppy mills rarely have vetrenarians because the owners of the mills care more about the money than the health of the dogs. Puppy mills also have no regulations, so they rarely clean the cages. The dogs live in feces for long periods of time. Dogs don't deserve these poor living conditions. The way they're treated is, by definition, considered animal abuse. Please, help us put an end to puppy mills.)